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Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era

Quelle: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide-seen-in-wasting-time-online.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all, By MATT RICHTEL, Published: May 29, 2012

In the 1990s, the term digital divide emerged to describe technologys haves and havenots. It inspired many efforts to get the latest computing tools into the hands of all
Americans, particularly low-income families.
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Those efforts have indeed shrunk the divide. But they have created an unintended side
effect, one that is surprising and troubling to researchers and policy makers and that the
government now wants to fix.
As access to devices has spread, children in poorer families are spending considerably
more time than children from more well-off families using their television and gadgets to

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watch shows and videos, play games and connect on social networking sites, studies
show.
This growing time-wasting gap, policy makers and researchers say, is more a reflection
of the ability of parents to monitor and limit how children use technology than of access
to it.

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The new divide is such a cause of concern for the Federal Communications Commission
that it is considering a proposal to spend $200 million to create a digital literacy corps.
This group of hundreds, even thousands, of trainers would fan out to schools and
libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.
Separately, the commission will help send digital literacy trainers this fall to organizations

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like the Boys and Girls Club, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some of the financial
support for this program, part of a broader initiative called Connect2Compete, comes
from private companies like Best Buy and Microsoft.
A study published in 2010 by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that children and

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teenagers whose parents do not have a college degree spent 90 minutes more per day
exposed to media than children from higher socioeconomic families. In 1999, the
difference was just 16 minutes.

The study found that children of parents who do not have a college degree spend 11.5
hours each day exposed to media from a variety of sources, including television,
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computer and other gadgets. That is an increase of 4 hours and 40 minutes per day
since 1999.
Children of more educated parents, generally understood as a proxy for higher
socioeconomic status, also largely use their devices for entertainment. In families in
which a parent has a college education or an advanced degree, Kaiser found, children

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use 10 hours of multimedia a day, a 3.5-hour jump since 1999.

Despite the educational potential of computers, the reality is that their use for education
or meaningful content creation is minuscule compared to their use for pure
entertainment, said Vicky Rideout, author of the decade-long Kaiser study. Instead of
closing the achievement gap, theyre widening the time-wasting gap.

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The concerns are brought to life in families like those of Markiy Cook, a thoughtful 12year-old in Oakland who loves technology.
At home, where money is tight, his family has two laptops, an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo
Wii, and he has his own phone. He uses them mostly for Facebook, YouTube, texting
and playing games.

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He particularly likes playing them on the weekends.

I stay up all night, until like 7 in the morning, he said, laughing sheepishly. Its why Im
so tired on Monday.
His grades are suffering. His grade-point average is barely over 1.0, putting him at the
bottom of his class. He wants to be a biologist when he grows up, he said.

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Die Aufgaben:

I.

Comprehension (in English)

Describe the consequences of the efforts to get the latest computing tools into
the hands of all Americans, particularly low-income families (ll.7-8).
(150-200 words)

II.

bersetzung
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III.

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Choose one of the following options:
1. The digital literacy corps has been set up. You are the head of the corps
and have been asked to outline your programme in a keynote speech.
Write this speech.
or

2. Concerning these plans a principal said that children needed to know how
to use technology to compete, but her priorities for her students were more
basic: Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Comment on this statement.
or

3. Do you think the use of technology by young people in the US can be

compared with the habits that can be found in your peer group. Do you
think the measures taken will be successful?
(250-300 words)
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